Prayers for members Harvey and Al Weidman., The Oroville Dam E-Spillway is failing. |
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Prayers for members Harvey and Al Weidman., The Oroville Dam E-Spillway is failing. |
ConeDodger |
Feb 12 2017, 08:10 PM
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Apex killer! Group: Members Posts: 23,569 Joined: 31-December 04 From: Tahoe Area Member No.: 3,380 Region Association: Northern California |
The dam itself is apparently holding, but the Emergency Spillway which is being used for the first time in the 50 year history of the dam is eroding away quickly and expected to fail. Oroville is below the dam.
Residents have been told to evacuate. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/sad.gif) |
Nogoodwithusernames |
Feb 14 2017, 05:31 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 235 Joined: 31-May 16 From: Nor-Cal Member No.: 20,051 Region Association: None |
Me and my parents evacuated Sunday night but are in Yuba City so were able to come back the next day, can't imagine living closer and having to be gone until this clears up. We loaded up the truck and took that and my 914 on a 3 hour drive that usually takes about 25 minutes. Gotta say that was not fun with a manual transmission!
From what I know they are doing some temporary repairs to be able to keep draining water. (Giant scale sandbags basically) And they are (yesterday at least, haven't checked in today) dumping about 100,000 cubic feet of water per second down the main spillway to lower the water levels before this next storm. Hopefully it holds up well enough, the damage to it is a couple thousand feet from the dam apparently. The cause for emergency evac was the auxiliary spillway (furthest left in that photo) as the erosion from it got really close to that concrete skirt. As far as I know the dam itself was in no danger. |
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